 Douglass
North, Founder
Douglass North is co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economic Sciences. He joined the faculty of Washington University in
1983
as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Liberty in the Department of
Economics, and served as director of the Center for Political Economy
from
1984 to 1990. In 1992, he became the first economic historian every to
win one of the economics profession's most prestigious honors, the John
R. Commons Award, which was established by the International Honors
Society
in Economics in 1965. His current research includes property rights,
transaction
costs, and economic organization in history as well as economic
development
in developing countries.
 Itai
Sened, Director
A typical product of the Rochester Ph.D. program of the late 1980's,
Itai Sened is currently a full professor at Washington University in
St.
Louis, and Chair of the Department of Political Science. His main
interests
are theory of institutions, game theory and applied mathematical
modeling.
His first book, The Political Institution of Property Rights,
was
published by Cambridge University Press in 1997. His second book, Political
Bargaining: Theory, Practice and Process, with Gideon Dorn, was
published
in 2001 by Sage Publications. He has also published articles in The
American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics and The
Journal of Theoretical Politics and different edited volumes. He is
the co-editor, with Jack Knight, of Explaining Social Institutions
from The University of Michigan Press, 1995, now in a paperback
edition.
Alana Bame, Administrative
Assistant
Alana Bame joined CNISS in March of 2001. Along with being the
administrative
assistant for CNISS, she also works as administrative coordinator for
the
International Society of New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) and the
Weidenbaum
Center on the Economy, Public Policy, and Government, both also at
Washington
University.
Her prior work experience includes conference planning activities,
editing, writing, and research for non-profit organizations and
associations in Washington, DC.
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2004-2005 CNISS Board of
Directors
Murray
Weidenbaum,
Honorary Chairman,
Weidenbaum Center, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Lee
Benham, Department of Economics
Margaret
Louise Brown, Acadmemic Coordinator, American Culture Studies
Steven Fazzari,
Department of Economics
Jack
Knight,
Department of Political Science
Jack
Nickerson,
Olin School of Business
Paul Rothstein,
Department of Economics; Associate Director of Weidenbaum Center
Itai
Sened, CNISS
Director; Department of Political Science
Andy
Sobel, Department
of Political Science
Gautam Yadama,
GWB School of Social Work
2002-2003 CNISS Members
John Drobak,
School of Law; Department of Economics; Chairman of the Board of
Directors
Lee
Benham, Department of Economics
Margaret
Louise Brown, Department of Anthropology
Steven Fazzari,
Department of Economics
Wayne
Fields, Co-Director of American Culture Studies; Department of
English
Sukkoo
Kim, Department of Economics
Jack
Knight,
Department of Political Science
Gary
Miller,
CNISS Minor Advisor; Department of Political Science
Jack Nickerson,
Olin School of Business
Douglass North,
Nobel Prize Laureate; CNISS Founder; Department of Economics
Shanta Pandey,
GWB School of Social Work
Paul Rothstein,
Department of Economics; Associate Director of Weidenbaum Center
Norman
Schofield, Director of Center in Political Economy; Department of
Economics
Itai
Sened, CNISS
Director; Department of Political Science
Andy
Sobel, Department
of Political Science
Murray
Weidenbaum,
Honorary Chairman of Weidenbaum Center; Department of Economics
James
Wertsch, Department of Education
Gautam Yadama,
GWB School of Social Work
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